I think there are a number of us here who love to write.
Mine is not as technical as Peters but yes have 2 published and currently writing 3rd book.
I need something to do when internet is not working lol.

I think there are a number of us here who love to write.
Mine is not as technical as Peters but yes have 2 published and currently writing 3rd book.
I need something to do when internet is not working lol.

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Can't wait to read your book @Xenia had a flick through... looks interesting....(got to finish my current pile of books first). Have you put it up on Amazon Kindle for sale?

If you're procrastinating I can only recommend you DO IT! No special software or computer skills are needed. If you can write a Word document and insert pictures into it you can write an ebook.

Electronic publishing has opened up so many opportunities for independent specialist authors. There's no dealing with publishers, carting books around to Sunday markets (and returning home with most unsold) or trying to convince bookshops to stock them. Prices are lower than dead tree but your overheads are virtually zero, percentage profit margins are higher and Amazon takes care of the transactional stuff.

In a specialist area you can market the book far better than any publisher and very often at no cost. If you have an established online presence on Twitter or YouTube you can leverage this to generate sales. It is possible to find freely-accessible groups on social media which have a 100% correlation with your book's target market so conversion rates and buyer loyalty can be high (in other words sales are generated by readers blogging about your book).

On the other hand the majority of ebook authors neglect these aspects. It would be fair to say that most ebooks have low sales of 1 book/day or less. This hardly justifies the effort writing unless you have other reasons. As well some ebooks may be poorly presented with unattractive covers and/or be too short to provide good value.

Writing successful ebooks has potential to be a semi-passive income stream that when combined with proceeds from other investments or businesses could aid financial independence. In my view, it has higher returns than ads on personal websites, YouTube and perhaps affiliate marketing (which I haven't tried).

Is this available in a real book that an 88 year old amateur might have a show of reading?

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Unfortunately not. With my hard-nosed business hat on I've thought about it but the number of requests for hard-copy books is less than 0.5% of total sales so I'm not convinced it should have higher priority than, say, writing another book.

Wow @Spiderman you're peter parker? I learnt heaps from your website years ago when I used to tinker around with electronics and amateur radio. I actually printed a lot of your content and still have it with me today.

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